Austrolimulidae
| Austrolimulidae Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Order: | Xiphosura |
| Suborder: | Xiphosurida |
| Family: | †Austrolimulidae Riek, 1955 |
Austrolimulidae is an extinct family of horseshoe crabs belonging to the infraorder Limulina. Members of the family are known from the Permian to the beginning of the Jurassic, though one species has been reported from the end of the Cretaceous. Austrolimulids are known for amongst the most extreme morphologies among Xiphosurids, including large elongated genal spines. Unlike living Limulids, Austrolimulids were likely adapted for freshwater and brackish environments.[1]
Genera[]
- †Austrolimulus Riek, 1955 Triassic, , NSW, Australia
- †Attenborolimulus Bicknell, 2021 Triassic (Olenekian), , Cis-Urals, Russia[2]
- † Wilde, 1987 Triassic (Rhaetian), Exter Formation, Germany
- † Lamsdell, 2020 Carboniferous, United States (Jr. synonym)[3]
- †Casterolimulus Holland, Erickson & O'Brien, 1975 Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation, North Dakota, USA (Inconsistently placed in this family)
- † Pickett 1984 Middle Triassic (Anisian) , Australia
- † Bicknell, Hecker & Heyng, 2021[4] Early Jurassic (Hettangian) , Germany
- †Limulitella Schimper 1853 Middle Triassic (Anisian), , France
- † Allen and Feldmann 2005 Early Permian (Kungurian), Lueders Formation, Texas, USA
- † Lange 1923 Early-Middle Triassic, Solling Formation, Germany
- † Bicknell, 2019[5] Late Permian, , Tasmania, Australia
- † Lerner, Lucas and Lockley, 2017[6] Early Triassic (Olenekian) Thaynes Group, Idaho, USA
References[]
- ^ Bicknell, Russell D. C.; Pates, Stephen (2020). "Pictorial Atlas of Fossil and Extant Horseshoe Crabs, With Focus on Xiphosurida". Frontiers in Earth Science. 8: 98. Bibcode:2020FrEaS...8...98B. doi:10.3389/feart.2020.00098. ISSN 2296-6463.
- ^ Bicknell, Russell D. C.; Shcherbakov, Dmitry E. (30 June 2021). "New austrolimulid from Russia supports role of Early Triassic horseshoe crabs as opportunistic taxa". PeerJ. 9: e11709. doi:10.7717/peerj.11709. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8254475. PMID 34249518. Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
- ^ Lamsdell, James C. (2020). "The phylogeny and systematics of Xiphosura". PeerJ. 8: e10431. doi:10.7717/peerj.10431. PMC 7720731. PMID 33335810.
- ^ Bicknell, Russell D. C.; Hecker, Andreas; Heyng, Alexander M. (2021-02-11). "New horseshoe crab fossil from Germany demonstrates post-Triassic extinction of Austrolimulidae". Geological Magazine. 158 (8): 1461–1471. Bibcode:2021GeoM..158.1461B. doi:10.1017/S0016756820001478. ISSN 0016-7568. S2CID 233937535.
- ^ Bicknell, Russell D. C. (2019-10-13). "Xiphosurid from the Upper Permian of Tasmania confirms Palaeozoic origin of Austrolimulidae". Palaeontologia Electronica. 22 (3): 1–13. doi:10.26879/1005. ISSN 1094-8074.
- ^ Lerner, Allan J.; Lucas, Spencer G.; Lockley, Martin (2017-12-01). "First fossil horseshoe crab (Xiphosurida) from the Triassic of North America". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 286 (3): 289–302. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0702.
Categories:
- Xiphosura